Hello all! I am trying to find out what is the finnish equivalent of Swiss cheese???? I have a guess..is it emmental??? I am seeking Swiss out cuz I read it contains higher source of calcium than Edam....

This is from across the pond, so take it with a grain of salt; my little Berlitz phrase book says that Finnish Emmental is the closest to what the UK and USA would know as Swiss cheese. (I just accidentally happened to be looking at that earlier today while on the plane, returning from a business trip.)

Here some some Swiss opinion. Emmental is absolutely not Swiss, as the original is EmmentalER and tastes completely different from the Emmental sold in Finland and the rest of the world. Emmental is btw a region in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. They forgot to put a patent on it, so they just stole (part of) the name. The same happened also to the TilsitER, which is here called Tilsitjuusto: which has nothing got to do with Swiss cheese !!

As a cheese lover I already found a lot of cheese from Switzerland. The cheapest and widest selection you can find in Stockmann: Swiss Gruyère, Vacherin fribourgeois, Appenzeller etc.....
(Gruyere has also been copied from France! I am from the canton (region) where Gruyere is located)

The Appenzeller "classic" you can find in most of the bigger stores in Helsinki. But if you are not used to the taste and smell of the Swiss cheese.. it is a bit different.
(Hint: look always for the stamp that it is Swiss)
I lately tried the Alpzirler from Austria and found it tastes a bit similar to the Appenzeller, maybe this could be also something...

Na wrote:I don't know which one that could be, if anybody knows I would be happy to taste it, as the Swiss cheese is extremely expensive here (22-30 Euros/kg), more than double than in Switz...

Go for the black one, if you buy Valio Emmental. It's the one that's been aged longest so it's the strongest. A bit more expensive but worth the difference in price. The red is the mildest, blue somewhere in between.
(Yargh, the blue and the red could be the other way around, I rarely buy them.)